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Footballing Thespians

StigStig
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I was watching The Theory of Everything the other day and noticed that Frank Leboeuf pops up as a Swiss doctor. It got me wondering how many other footballers have lit up the silver screen - or even trod the boards. I guess Vinnie Jones and Eric Cantona would be the highest profile ones, at least in recent years. Whilst half the Ipswich team got in on the act in 1981. Are there any others?
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  • SheffieldRedSheffieldRed

    Some Arsenal players in the Arsenal Stadium Mystery
  • Addick AddictAddick Addict
    O J Simpson
  • Addick AddictAddick Addict
    Our very own Allan Simonsen. He was "shot" in every respect in a film called The Marksman.
  • GreenieGreenie
    Bollox - I thought the title was Footballing Lesbians.
    Imagine my dissapointment.
  • LeuthLeuth
    inb4 someone says Fernando Forestieri
  • MrLargoMrLargo
    Iain Dowie - Alien 3 and The Bride of Frankenstein
  • 1StevieG1StevieG
    Leuth said:

    inb4 someone says Fernando Forestieri

    Wasn't he in Das Boot......"dive, dive, dive!!!!!"

  • LeuthLeuth
    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds
  • McBobbinMcBobbin
    Pele and Bobby Moore in escape to victory
  • mistrollinginmistrollingin
    I always thought that Dennis "Daisy" Edwards looked a lot like Alistair Sim
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  • ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    MrLargo said:

    Iain Dowie - Alien 3 and The Bride of Frankenstein

    He was in the Goonies wasnt he?

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  • JiMMy 85JiMMy 85
    Pele has done a couple. Hotshot was another he was in.

    Ian Wright was in a really bad movie called Son of the black gun or something equally silly.

    Vinnie Jones got Robert Duvall into football while shooting Gone in 60, and soon after Duvall made a movie with Ally McCoist called Shot at Glory.

    The real question is, which footballers have been in good films? Cantona in Looking For Eric is up there. Jones in Gone in 60, Snatch and Lock Stock.
  • Charlton_StuCharlton_Stu
    David Beckham featured in one the Goal films, and if i remember correctly Greame Souness was in Boys from the black stuff.
  • SuedeAdidasSuedeAdidas
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Pele has done a couple. Hotshot was another he was in

    I assume 'Hotshot' wasn't a porno given his well publicised floppy nana issues?
  • ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen were in Bend it Like Beckham
  • MrLargoMrLargo
    Didn't those "Goal" films from a few years back have a load of cameo appearance by all the big names - Ronaldo, Zidane, Beckham, etc?
  • LenGloverLenGlover
    Bradley Walsh played for Brentford although I don't know whether he made the first team.
  • Big WilliamBig William
    Sol Campbell was a doorman at one of the fights in Snatch.
  • MrOneLungMrOneLung
    Ian Rush was in Scully
  • StigStig
    Actually, I believe that Steve McLaren might be in Theory of Everything as well. Only a bit part though, sitting in the audience at a speech.
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  • newyorkaddicknewyorkaddick
    Nick Pope played the role of a professional goalkeeper although I never found him very convincing.
  • JorgeCostaJorgeCosta
    Beckham was in Bend it like Beckham - cameo only.

    I remember Graeme Souness meeting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Black Stuff.
  • SheffieldRedSheffieldRed

    Bryan Robson - Jossy's Giants (Sid Waddell's classic)
  • mickcmickc
    Ashley Young ......Match of the Day.

    Still trying to perform the dive with a roll.
  • cashncarrycashncarry
    Leuth said:

    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds

    Saw him in UK milfs dogging, was a good film but plot wasn't up to much
  • SDAddickSDAddick
    Leuth said:

    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds

    I've heard this as well, apparently he dies in the first scene.

    That said, no idea if this is true. It's one of those random facts you hear down the pub (or in my case The Football Ramble), but no one can ever verify because no one is certain that Basic Instinct 2 even exists.
  • Daddy_PigDaddy_Pig
    SDAddick said:

    Leuth said:

    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds

    I've heard this as well, apparently he dies in the first scene.

    That said, no idea if this is true. It's one of those random facts you hear down the pub (or in my case The Football Ramble), but no one can ever verify because no one is certain that Basic Instinct 2 even exists.
    The rumours are true... Supposedly
  • seth plumseth plum
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-29597248
  • A-R-T-H-U-RA-R-T-H-U-R
    A couple of the England Women's World Cup squad were rumoured to be.
  • masicatmasicat
    Gordon Ramsey
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